Walt Mossberg Reviews the Sony Tablet P

3/21/2012 1:00PM

The new Sony Tablet P sounds cool but has some crucial drawbacks, says Walt Mossberg. And Consumer Reports Electronics Editor Paul Reynolds has the results of his company's investigation into complaints that Apple's new iPad overheats. Photo: Sony.

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Julie and when joins me for the entire show the privacy friends ask us on ... that and it left its anti have continued in the second of May ... which is resigned summing OK let's go straight to Washington D C well wall was but that everything the big doubly him self ... to weigh in on the sunny tablet pay ... something they knew they wanted to go here to tell the struggle I ... well I'd I first have to make a football common with that as the ... New England beat its band ... and the Jets are a bigger rival of paper goods I have ... enough to think about whether this is good or bad that are now ... I don't know ... what this is Ardi tablet she not so good for the month ... again ... you ask the question in your column ought to do with stories that a lot ... right ... all that well he hears things ... up so this is that ... I it's not ... you can see small portable and can see me scream but when you open it up ... and in our portly this was not charged but ... there are two screens one small screen here one relative small screen here ... and some of apps ... I ... can run all off only in one a bomb ... on a lot of apps will run across all of them is that there is ... only one screen but the prom is this is big black inch ... across the middle ... and ... that's what with browsing ... for and Google maps are like marred by this engine the middle ... and I that was the first US strike against it in in my mind ... is if you have many strikes against it but yet ... it looks like the flax so and and and the andthe and am trying to get ... away from the normal device ... that was never the intention of this unique in that class ... but the range of ... bought it that ... okay so here's the deal lap up for small G I never liked sleeping serve flops there's not a big sale ... I've ... I've given bad reviews the things that have ... gone on and and so well and vice versa but ... the NPT you're quite right that when people are looking for a fifty two in the tablet market where there's a dominant player ... is of ways to be different ways to be innovative or for Sony has long had a great reputation for industrial design ... they did bring out of ... a tablet IKB could refuse to last year ... showed an interest in the new show industrial design ... not this is just ... a ... it just ... I don't think if it works aam but clearly the right the worst state to have a tablet with ... this guy affordability the key to put your pocketing yet ... you open it up ... it's not as big as I might add or Stephen Sony's other tablet ... but it's got about a total re Neary of seven inches ... and is a lot and runs all the Android app so ... I think that if they were thinking try to be good for the five ... hundred and fifty dollars ... but you know from Sony without a ... phone contract and the team T selling it for four hundred ... with a two-year contract ... well that is pretty expensive in use at its Free stiletto and the battery life and insight not very good at it like that bright eyed it had about ... five hours or so the battery life might test that I do and that was ... that can just quit selling the new I pad came out less than ever in the rest of us we can ever in ... the same test on that ... it's been roughly ... at just about half of what God that does ... it comes with very little of memory YouTube and expanded the vineyard spend ... some more money but it comes with less than four gigabytes of ... usable ... storage on it ... and it runs four G ... but it does not run ... helped ... which ... seems too much jargon but that's the ... that's the really so good ... superfast kind of four G ... and a lot of devices are coming out with that and this one doesn't have that ... he also said this and thought aam kept coming loose against us and looking over this the cover here on them on the top down ... stuff to open ... the SIM card and I opened it with the SIM card in clothes that ... we kept coming loops ... which surprise because Sony's ... itno hard word that the ... quality is usually quite good so ... I can claim ... that surprising to me Kim evicted channel quality of the Sony ... also tend to move designed to have Sunday it says is often just exceptionally low for a while so when you check out ... the Datsun is to try to make sure the DOT II is crafted to it ... all the that that ... was in treating about the two screens is the two speed are better productivity on the desktop ... and said there was ... some with eleven in the tablet that actually have an interesting idea ... now ... well yet you can use it like the look of your right to use it as a clam shell shape ... and it is an interesting idea ... and that and and when you are persons typing an e mail ... the virtual keyboard is is on the bottom screen and you know the thing you're writing is up here ... seek the views of what the tiny little laptop I suppose Julia but ... I'm ... you could also put ... any these other tablets understand and have a tough right now you get ... right and a lot of them the stands and cases come with keyboards and ... pursues a Sues has a thing called the Transformer Prime I get that triggered the two that ... has a keyboard excess rebate also has a battery that charges that so there's ... other solutions of ... which are right that might be redeeming ... quality of some books on this ... the headlines yet rasping for the redeeming all the attending flooded out from the big doubly him self wall last but thank you Brian much manage everyone to go check out what's column in today's ... Wall Street gentle thank the much wall Moscow told The Wall Street gentle ... well what is celebrating its presence or a sixth anniversary today what can I get so that's ... fun last week noted videogames are leading the I pad and red bomb that killed according to consumer reports of how we cope Paul Reynolds joining us ... from Duncan does when he's been ... doing a review on this and finding that ... things are getting well the Hawks ... tells Paul tells what what did you just the Bob out the new I pad ... on my comes to video games ... we discovered was in writing the new I pad and and I had to post come ... on I'm afraid which many videogame Infinity Blade too ... that ... being reached temperatures of ... in the case of the new I pad ... of up to one hundred and sixty degrees Fahrenheit ... op which was about a dozen degrees ... warmer ... than the I pad to so what ... we ... think we have ... established ... is that the ... the anecdotal reports are out there on some forums and on some of our comments you know ... that this was a device that runs on the hot sun ... in fact true we think based on test ... so I ... we're all so you would basically spent all day with this and that if ... he was allowed to attend it would probably sleep with it ... and I don't like it can be next to that answer for that long period time isn't actually dangerous ... we don't think it ... is now when you look at and and what's demonstrably at a temperature of concern ... 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I'm in awe of the stuff that they haven't really thought that through clearly but I mean for our niece during the many reports out that if you wanna buy a TV at this point on three D TV is the way to go because they still can't sell but with the stuff of ... which I know I know that for sure so you get a pretty good quality TV with that extra level three the bonus which may or may not ever be able to really do this ... for a bigger discount ... she displayed a solution to your streaming video from the bad old regular TV deal ... they saw happening ... anything to do with the shop problems with its wings but in a ... but not this is something separate ways ... they're having problems altogether it seems but that that ... they have said that the comic cut back production on a lot of the Helsinki swings to a justice is will we cope disruption aam and what ... it is the new devices that basically be disrupting the fee waiver of the wall what Santini was the way ... people consume media ... and people already have a TV set me high that not many ... aam and you know and that's just the nature of the business right this is the changing business while ... it is that it's also that the TV all day is actually been pretty good we haven't seen any notable increase in recent years so ... its partner in reality the picture ... the pictures this am really at this point are trying to convince people to get the three D TV you're connected TV and ... if you are about one and that really the reason for you to get this year's model versus last year and if you don't partake of wonder their broker boxes there are ... all these other devices that can connect to the internet so it's not a must up for it yet ... and that they needed technologically foreign like ... some incredible pictures on it we can walk into it interact with the church that well and ... that ... and then we will all be up one fine ... so what what about what it Web enabled TV but that's where a lot of people want to go ... to Lowe's going to be wed UCB sells you think and on top of that because there isn't a candidate ... 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